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Thursday, May 28, 2015

NBC kicked off another season of America's Got Talent (2.6) with a slightly larger-than-average drop from last year's 3.0 premiere. It also had a decent launch from unscripted lead-out I Can Do That (1.8), which was an improvement on last season's premiere of The Night Shift (1.6).

On Fox, there was very little interest in the return of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?(0.8), which only about matched the Plus it was doing for its last regular season run on Friday in 2008-09. Hell's Kitchen (1.1) also slumped.

ABC had another OK result from 500 Questions (1.1), which handily beat 5th Grader at 8/7c. But the two-hour return of Extreme Weight Loss (0.9) was very weak, down a massive 31% from last year's premiere.

And the CW began a three-week summer run of straggling originals for iZombie (0.6). Like back in week four, the show was even week-to-week despite not having an original The Flash lead-in, a much more promising look than the usual post-Flash delivery.

FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

True

A18-49

Skew

Last

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

500 Questions

1.1

30%

+0%

+0.0

n/a

2/5

n/a

-42%

-4%

1.3

Extreme Weight Loss

0.9

39%

n/a

n/a

n/a

1/1

-31%

-62%

-31%

1.3

ABC:

-56%

-23%

NCIS (R)

1.1

16%

+16%

-12%

1.3

NCIS: New Orleans (R)

1.0

16%

+5%

-9%

1.3

48 Hours (R)

0.9

20%

-5%

+13%

1.3

CBS:

+5%

-5%

America's Got Talent Tue

2.6

30%

n/a

n/a

n/a

1/1

-13%

+18%

-13%

2.8

I Can Do That

1.8

36%

n/a

n/a

n/a

1/1

n/a

-40%

+13%

1.9

NBC:

-5%

-7%

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

0.8

31%

n/a

n/a

n/a

1/1

n/a

-36%

+45%

1.0

Hell's Kitchen

1.1

42%

-15%

-0.2

-0.5

13/14

-31%

-12%

+175%

1.6

Fox:

-24%

+100%

The Flash (R)

0.4

38%

-71%

+100%

0.5

iZombie

0.6

49%

+0%

+0.0

-1.1

7/11

n/a

+9%

+100%

0.7

CW:

-49%

+100%

Big5:

-27%

+4%

KEY (click to expand)

A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.